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20110516

Shoot Boer incites murder – judge Leon Halgryn

'Shoot the Boer' ís incitement to murder - - Judge Leon Halgryn - ANC denied leave to appeal: 2011-05-16 South Gauteng High Court. The ruling African National Congress' request to appeal against acting Judge Leon Halgryn ruling on 26 March 2010 to ban the word-chant ' dubula i'Bhulu' (Shoot the Boer) was rejected on Monday. The ANC were ordered to pay the court costs, reports Beeld journalist Janice Keogh. Halgryn had ruled that the publication and drumming-crowd-chanting of these lyrics are incitements to commit murder. Halgryn also issued a legal instruction that his previous court-order had to be adjusted to read that 'the words Dubula I’Bhunu (Shoot the Boer) at first glance indicates an incitement to commit murder.” Halgryn also ordered that the attorney who represented the people concerned with this case, Mr Mohammed Vawda and Mr Willem Harmse, be referred to the Attorneys’ Registrar for further investigation. Mr Willie Spies of Afriforum said in his response that they will study the ruling - and that the precedent which has been created with this, ‘will very likely be used in its arguments in the Julius Malema hatespeech trial at the Equality Court this Thursday May 19 and Friday May 20.” http://www.facebook.com/notes/afriforum/suid-gautengse-hooggeregshof-verwerp-anc-tussenbeidetrede/222967201062971

Steve Hofmeyr bleeps out K-word while singing new song “We shall survive’ at Jan Kemp Dorp

Farm wife Mrs Jan Herselman shot in head, Joubertina 2011-05-16 Joubertina, East Cape. Farmer Jan Herselman was busy working outside his homestead on Monday May 16 2011 when he heard a shot fired inside. He tried to raise his 60-year-old wife by phone - but rushed home when he could not raise her. He saw a man from the window and fired a shot to scare him away from his wife - who was locked in the study. She suffered a gun-shot wound to her head. Her condition and other details are stilll being awaited. http://afrikaans.news24.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Vrou-60-in-plaashuis-aangeval-20110516

2011-05-114 Lichtenburg. Sunday. Well-known local businessman Ferenc Nagy, 71, owner of the Wimpy at Koster, was assaulted with his wife Klein, 67, by six armed black men who tortured him and also deeply humiliated the elderly couple. On the same day the Koster farm of Mr K P van der Walt also was attacked 70km away. The attack on the Nagy-couple occurred at 4.30 am on Sunday when the couple were asleep. The couple's dogs, two cats and free-range chickens were all poisoned on their farm a few km from Lichtenburg. (source: Nicolize van der Walt). Lichtenburg farmers' association member Ewert du Preez said the six armed men had forced open the homestead windows with tyre-irons. He said the Nagy couple suffered deep trauma, Mr Nagy was tortured and deeply humilated. He's in hospital for X-rays and tests. Mr Nagy 's clothes were ripped off, he was tortured with electric shocks, he was badly assaulted, his wrists and ankles were left swollen because he was trussed up like an animal during the torture. After the six males left the homestead, Mr Nagy was forced to hobble naked with his burnt, tied-up feet to seek help at his farmworkers cottages 700 metres away to seek help. "It is incredibly humilating for your workers to see you like that. How much longer can this go on? Every time a farmer goes to sleep he wonders whether this will also happen to him' Mr Nagy was admitted to hospital for tests and X-rays to examine him for further unspecified internal injuries. Local police warrant officer Sam Tselenyane said the attackers looted two pistols, some jewellery and cellphones. And a chicken-farmer at Koster 70km away from the Nagy farm, Mr KP van der Walt, was also attacked by six black men on the same day. It's not known how Mr Van der Walt is doing. The local civil-defence unit member Gert Richter said police are investigating whether the same gang could have attacked both farms. Mr Van der Walt also was assaulted but his condition was not mentioned in this report. http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Aangerand-en-verneder-20110515

Violent Land occupation by 5500 black/coloured squatters, Tafelsig, Cape Town 2011-05-15 Mitchells Plain - Policing-forces fired rubber bullets AT some 5,500 people who -- in an organised two-pronged land occupation - have started occupying 18-hectares of land in the suburb of Tafelsig next to the Swartklip sports fields; and also are moving into the Wolfgat nature reserve. A 37-year-old police officer was shot in the neck early on Saturday-morning on the besieged Swartklip Road by three unknown men. The bullet exited from his left eye said SAPS capt Mugelaine van der Vent. The police officer is in critical condition in hospital. Anyone who knows more about the men who fired the shot are asked to contact warrant/officerPieter Joubert at 00213701600. Die Burger journalist and photographer had to flee at around 4:30pm when a hail of big stones rained down on the police and the news media. The estimated 5,500 land-occupiers -- who all had lived in shacks in the crowded backyards of relatives for years occupied the terrain with demands that they would not leave until the city gives them housing. At the same time another large group of squatters also attempted to occupy the Wolfgat nature reservice next to the Kapteinsklip-Station in New Tafelsig, Mitchell's Plain. The squatters were pegging out sites to erect their shacks on when metropolitan police moved in and overturned the shacks and confiscated their building materials. At Swartklip the squatters occupying the 18-hectares land-site dug a deep trench at the entrance of Swartklip Road to block police cars. Organiser of the 'coloured' squatter community, Mr Terence Hosking, said the public land is 'unused' saying he would 'lead his people to the promised land'. "The ANC-regime has money to buy firearms worth R40million but they can't build houses for us, he said. Cape Town spokeswoman Kyle Hatton confirmed that the police and metro-cops used rubber bullets and water-cannon. The city 's duty is to protect its land from illegal occupation and we do this under the terms of our ownership-rights. "We acknowledge that there is a housing-emergency but we can't allow people to build illegal structures on illegally-occupied land'. http://www.dieburger.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Oproeriges-eis-huise-en-beset-grond-in-Tafelsig-20110515

Mrs Aveline Botes, dead after kidnapping, Harrismith 2011-05-13 Harrismith kidnapping victim Mrs Aveline Botes 'had just quickly driven into town to buy a birthday present' when she and her car were attacked by a violent gang which had just escaped from the local magistrate's court. Police said constable Jim Meshack Cebekulu of the public-order unit in Bethlehem also was shot dead with his own captured service pistol during the escape from the police-van outside the court. (source: Andre Damons) And warrant/officer Olifant Mokoena was injured in the second shooting in this violent kidnapping - shot eight times, out of danger at the Hoogland MediClinic in Bethlehem said Capt Harry Nagel.Mrs Botes' nephew Petrie Jonker said his aunt 's has hit the family heard. "My aunt had just quickly driven into town to buy birthday present for my mom and to get something to eat. A guy has the anger inside but what can you do?" he said.Mokoena also was injured in 2007 when he protected an eye-witness while his brother's suspected murder was shooting at them.Nagel said the police 'will investigate how these escaped convicts could have gotten their hands on R5 attack carbines.'One escapee died and four were injured and recaptured after they crashed Mrs Botes' car at very high speed. They are under armed guard at a local hospital.The post-mortem examination of Mrs Botes will have to determine what she had died of after the crash. - Volksblad http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Kapingdood-Vrou-was-net-gou-op-dorp-20110513

Welkom businessman beaten by 2 men: victim arrested for firing self-defence-shots 2011-05-16 WELKOM. An unnamed businessman was arrested Friday-morning after he fired his gun in self-defence towards three black men who were assaulting him in the industrial area - and in the process had damaged a passing car... (source: Marisa Phillips) SAPS sergeant Puleng Motsoeneng said the unidentified businessman, 58, 'will appear on a charge of attempted murder' and his legal firearm was confiscated'. The businessman had apparently contacted two men a day earlier asking them if they had goods to transport: he earns extra by transporting items in his panel-van. He said when he delivered the items, the men accused him of 'stealing pipes' and threatened to assault him. The next day Friday, he was busy offloading items in Tenth Street in the industrial area when he was spotted by two men who assaulted him and tried to damage his van. He climbed out and the men threw him with stones and punched him. The businessman said he felt so threatened that he pulled out his firearm and fired warning shots to scare the men away. They ran away. However a bullet penetrated a passing vehicle with two occupants and the police decided that he should be arrested for 'attempted murder'. The assaulted businessman also was injured: his face was damaged and he lost two teeth punched out by his assailants. Police asked any witnesses to this event to contact them at 057-391-6211 or Stop Crime number 08600-10111. - Volksblad http://www.volksblad.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Man-vas-nadat-hy-losbrand-op-aanvallers-20110515

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '